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5. Flexibility or simplicity?
For the most part, simplicity should be given the priority. We want terms our users are
familiar with. We need to speak their language and use their business terminology.
STEP 2: IDENTIFY AND DEFINE THE CONCEPTS
Now that we have direction, we can work with the business experts to identify the concepts
within the scope of the application and come up with an agreed-upon definition for each
concept.
Question number three, capturing whether analytics is a requirement, is a key question be-
cause it determines whether we need to take a relational or dimensional conceptual data
modeling approach (or sometimes both a relational and dimensional approach). This is the
thought process we go through in deciding whether a relational or dimensional data model
is needed:
